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Lindorff: Taking it Out on the Kids (Again): Sanctions on Iran are Hurting the Young and the Sick
Znet Article,
August, 17 2012 Dave Lindorff
http://www.zcommunications.org/taking-it-out-on-the-kids-again-sanctions-on-iran-are-hurting-the-young-and-the-sick-by-dave-lindorff
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright should be a happy camper: Another campaign of sanctions and embargoes by the US is about to start killing children, this time in Iran.
Albright, as President Bill Clintons Secretary of State, when interviewed on CBSs news magazine program 60 Minutes back in 2000, was asked by reporter Lesley Stahl about reports that US sanctions on Iraq had led to the deaths of some 500,000 Iraqi children because of shortages of medicine and things like chlorine for treating water supplies. Stahl asked Albright if such a dreadful toll was worth it. Albright famously responded, I think this is a very hard choice, but the price--we think the price is worth it.
Albright must be happy then that apparently the same kind of heartless logic is at work once more, this time orchestrated by the Obama administration and the current Secretary of State, It Takes a Village author and self-styled child advocate Hillary Clinton.
According to a letter sent to UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon by the head of Irans Charity Foundation for Special Diseases, the current US-led sanctions campaign against Iranian financial institutions and efforts to prevent western banks from doing business with Iran have made it next to impossible for Iranian doctors and hospitals to obtain medicines from abroad for such relatively rare but serious diseases as hemophilia, Multiple sclerosis (MS), various cancers, kidney failure and thalassemia. More...
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Lindorff: Taking it Out on the Kids (Again): Sanctions on Iran are Hurting the Young and the Sick (Original Post)
polly7
Aug 2012
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ProgressiveProfessor
(22,144 posts)1. The solutions to this are under Iran's control
polly7
(20,582 posts)2. Like they were under Iraq's. nt.
ProgressiveProfessor
(22,144 posts)3. Quite a bit more so
Stop behaving badly and the sanction would be lifted...